Freight and Mail Revenue Load
Factor (monthly data)

Load factor is the percentage of seating or freight capacity
which is utilized. The data include both transborder and foreign flights by
large U.S. carriers, but do not include any flights by foreign carriers.

Domestic
Revenue Load Factors

Aug-04

Aug-05

Freight revenue load
factor (percent)

32.39

30.18

Percent change from the
same month in the previous year

7.93

-6.82

NOTES: The current value
is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account
for seasonality.

The dramatic changes in the September 2001 data reflect the
impact of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, on aviation, including
several days in which commercial air operations were suspended.

For comparability, the data reported here exclude
small-certificated and commuter carriers that began reporting T100 data in
2002.

SOURCE: U.S. Department
of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau
of Transportation Statistics, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics Monthly, October
2005.